Category Archives: Reddit Bureau of Investigation

A grieving tech billionaire creates a crowdsourcing website to solve his daughter’s murder. This is the premise of intriguing new CBS drama Wisdom of the Crowd— and even executive producer (The GoodWife‘s Ted Humphrey) is scared of it.

“The ultimate question is,” he says, “once you let this genie out of the box, is there a way to control it?”

With that question weighing on his mind, Silicon Valley mogul Jeffrey Tanner (Jeremy Piven) enlists Det. Tommy Cavanagh (Richard T. Jones) to help him use the app responsibly and, in the process, realizes it can be used to solve other crimes. “He’s a reluctant hero,” says Piven. “One of the many things that make the character interesting to me is that he’s not perfect, and some could see him as being selfish in terms of [having] this singular focus.”

Below, EW chats with Humphrey about the new show, which is based on an Israeli

In September 2016, Reddit users engaged in a collaborative effort to preserve and secure what they believe is evidence that a fellow user posting under the screen name stonetear, who had sought technical advice about stripping addresses from e-mail messages, is actually Paul Combetta — an employee of Platte River Networks, the company that managed Hillary Clinton’s infamous private e-mail server. Combetta allegedly sought questionable advice via Reddit about stripping out a “very VIP’s e-mail address from a bunch of archived email” during times crucial to the Clinton e-mail investigation in 2014 and 2015.

On 18 September 2016, a Twitter user published a galvanizing tweet suggesting Combetta was u/stonetear: